Stewartia

Although several stewartia species are available, most of them are from Asia.

Most unusual for its huge flowers and showy bark is the stewartia.

The stewartia can be planted for its camellia-like flowers that appear in late summer.

And relax I can because, aside from a weekly watering during its first year, the stewartia has required no care.

Although the stewartia is relatively disease-free, it has a bad reputation as being difficult to transplant.

And finally, a plug for a little-used smaller tree that deserves more attention, stewartia.

In midsummer, Stewartia trees add to the flowery show.

Another relatively unknown shrub, stewartia, is planted more for its showy bark.

Trees that bloom now include crapemyrtle, sourwood and stewartia.

But the mountain stewartia is a stalwart.

(Again, it takes years for a stewartia to look like this, but plant one for the future.)

My first two-season tree was a Japanese stewartia (S. pseudocamellia).

If you have an alkaline one, forget stewartia, enkianthus, fothergilla and nyssa.

Consider, for example, stewartia's peeling bark of gray, brown, orange, or red, as well as its creamy summer flowers and great fall color.

Two Carolina silverbells (Halesia carolina) are now situated behind the stewartia.

Most of the genera have evergreen foliage, but Stewartia and Franklinia are deciduous.

Stewartia pseudocamellia var.

Flora in the area include rhododendrons, Japanese andromeda, stewartia monadelpha and Siebold's beech.

Some genera are particularly well represented: Acer, Magnolia, Rhododendron and Stewartia.

The mountain stewartia is a native woody plant of the Piedmont area in the Southeast and considered a unique treasure when it is found growing there.

"That's a stewartia," Mrs. Sorensen said, pointing with her cane toward a graceful tree with mottled bark.

Acer, Magnolia, Rhododendron and Stewartia.

The arboretum contains approximately 40 non-native trees, including Betula nigra, Cercidiphyllum, and Stewartia.

Some other popular garden shrubs that are candidates for a pruning on a bright sunny mild day are beautyberry, stewartia and the late flowering spiraeas.

A relative of the evergreen Camellias of Asia, other common names include summer dogwood and Mountain Stewartia.